LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 7 October 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The town c-lerk was last night authorised to pay to the Hospital Board the sum of £345 11s 6d, being the levy for two quarters in respect of the proposed new hospital. House rents are highest in Hamilton and lowest in Waihi, the respective index figures for the June quarter being 2142 and 816. Wellington is second on the list with 1781, and then follow New Plymouth 1686, Whangarei 1649, Rotorua 1639, Palmerston North. 1639 and Taihape 1626. The Dominion average is 1538. “The hon. member for Gisborne (Mr W. D. Lvsnar) addresses this House with all the assurance of the Kaiser addressing his battalions,” remarked Mr. D. G. Sullivan (Avon) in the House of Representatives. Mr Lysnar: I should be very sorry to have any of you Labour members in my battalion —rebels all of you. (Laughter.) During the month of September the butter received for grading in Auckland totalled 184,963 boxes, an increase of 31,974 boxes upon the amount for the same month last year. The cheese sent for grading in September totalled 8507 crates, a decrease of 296 crates upon the quantity received for the same month in 1923. As the weather is all that could be desired by dairy farmers, indications point at the present time to a possibility of a record output. Mr L. 0. Hooker,’ secretary to the South Taranaki Winter Show,' said on Friday that the committee were goinoto put up the best attraction in New Zealand for a week at the next winter show at Hawera in June (says the New Zealand Times). Asked to give an indication of it, he replied: “No fear. \ou Wellington folk will be pinehino our idea if we tell you what it is. We will let you know something about it later on.” Within wireless range :—Auckland: Makura Niagara, Ngakuta, Rama, West Ishp. Kauri, Faxen, Eastern Sea Poit Caroline, Canadian Challenger, Gambadda, Arahura, Sierra, Waipori’ Maimoa. Chatham Islands: Arawa! Trevithick. Wellington: Maori. Mararoa, Ngaio, General Botha., Kaiapoi, Moeraki, Kaikorai, Tutanekai, Wail aka, Kaikoura, Mamari, Karroo, Waitemata. The Auckland City Council on Thursday night refused to grant a motor driver’s license to an applicant who had lost his right arm. The traffic inspector reported that the applicant had come through a stringent test quite satisfactorily, except that he was unable to give the necessary signals when changing gears and apply the hand brake. Then the car was momentarily out of control owing to the driver having to release his grip of the steering wheel.

The Salvation Army is holding a tricolour fair on Wednesday and Thursday. There are 1400 Salvation Army institutions scattered throughout the world, and the continued effort of the Army to supply food to the needy at a reasonable trifle, and shelter the army of the necessitous, is permissible only in so far as public support is forthcoming. The Army authorities always look to the self-denial appeal to replenish the diminished war chest, and to supply the wherewithal to continue its missionary operations, its general evangelical. work, and its influence in its various social institutions throughout the world. It is hoped that the fair will be generously supported. At yesterday’s meeting of the Taranaki County Council particulars of the Council’s contributions for the, main highways maintenance in the Taranaki County were forwarded in schedule form bv the chairman of the No. 7 District Highways Council (Mr T. M. Ball). Details of the l\)uncil’s contribution on main highways in the county, on a basis of £1 for £2 subsidy, were as follows: Auckland-Wellington via Taranaki (from Waitara borough boundary to Inglewood county boundary)' £250; Lepperton Junction-Hawera via Opunake (Paritutu block 3, section 998, to Now Plymouth), £184; New Plymonth-Kaiinata via Inglewood (New Plymouth boundary to Inglewood county boundary), £2OO. To secure two pigs at one shot- is a feat quite out of the ordinary, and cue that the sportsman responsible may justly regard with elation. Our townsman Mr M. F. Purser, as already related in these columns,, distinguished himself last summer in Marlborough by getting two pigs with one shot, an ad'iiional remarkable feature of the incident being that the bullet took exactly a similar course in both animals, and to this extent Mr Purser holds the belt against a rival who has come on the scene in the person of a townsmen, Mr W. G. Walklev, who during the past week-end, while pig-hunting- inland irom Hurieyville, brought down two pigs with o.ie shot. Mr Walkley has this to his credit, that he fired" with the intention of getting both with the one shot, while Mr Purser, though aware that the nearer nig covered another. concerned himself solely to getting the one aimed at.

At the monthly meeting of the Taranaki County Council a letter was received from the North Taranaki Automobile Association in regard to the Lepperton bridge, -where recently a motorist had had a miraculous escape fi om serious accident. The association asked permission to erect a warning sign for the benefit of travellers by motor car’or cycle. A deputation from the association, who also waited on the Council, urged that the bridge should be straightened and the road therefore made safe for the public. The chairman said that the bridge, which had been built by the Railway Department, was now under the control of the Highways Board. He promised that the matter would be introduced and discussed at the next, meeting of the local district committee.

A public meeting will be held at, the Borough Chambers on Thursday, 9th_ October, at 8 p.m., when all persons interested in the formaiton of a band are invited to attend.

A reminder i s given of the public lecture t-o be delivered in the Borough Chambers this evening bv Mr John Houston, LL.B. The subject is “Bills of Lading,” and is of the greatest interest to all business men.

Some men will think there is something wrong with the line of union (wool and cotton) shirts, with collars attached, which are offered at the Melbourne’s Gigantic Sale at less than half price. The purchase of a line like this from a financially embarrassed manufacturer is a common incident in these times of difficult trading, but it is not always that the customer reaps the benefit as in this instance. The shirts arc selling for 5/11. —Advt. BUCKR ELL’S, HAWERA. In addition to oijr usual showing of costumes, frocks, etc., we have opened 20 dozen vests These are marked 2/6, 3/6. 3/9; full sizes. These are exceedingly cheap. —Advt.

A new industry about to commence in Wellington is the manufacture of silk and artificial silk hosiery. A number of Masterton shopkeepers have had sovereigns tendered over the counter for the purchase of wares. It is proposed to erect a- building to cost £IO,OOO as" a radiological block in Dunedin Hospital grounds. At the meeting called in Manaia last night with the object of forming a branch of the Automobile Association, Mr. Walkley drew attention to the wonderful work done by the Waimate West Council in road and bridge making. He said it was probably unique to find a county with practically every road in its borders tarsealed and with the substantial concrete bridges to be seen on nearly all roads. An Australian, who was ignorant of Auckland’s motor traffic regulations, was surprised when seeking information from a constable to be rebuked by a sergeant of police for wasting the constable’s time. The Australian visitor stated that the constable was giving him the needed information tion when the sergeant came up. The sergeant said all such information could be obtained from the municipal authorities.